[Article] ‘The 0.001%’: a quick visual breakdown of the world’s wealthiest people
About 56,000 people control three times as much wealth as half of humanity. Here’s one way to illustrate that
Egypt want World Cup 'Pride Match' plans cancelled
The organisation behind the LGBTQ+ "Pride Match" at the 2026 World Cup say they intend to push forward with their plans despite one of the teams involved objecting to Fifa.
Archived version: archive.is/20251210080119/bbc.…
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RoboCrop: Teaching robots how to pick tomatoes
RoboCrop: Teaching robots how to pick tomatoes | Osaka Metropolitan University
Official website for Osaka Metropolitan University. Established in 2022 through the merger of Osaka City University and Osaka Prefecture University.Osaka Metropolitan University
Ukraine | Zelensky 'ready' to hold elections during war, if partners ensure security
"I am asking now, and stating this openly, for the U.S. to help me. Together with our European partners, we can ensure the security needed to hold elections. If that happens, Ukraine will be ready to conduct elections in the next 60 to 90 days," President Volodymyr Zelensky said.
Archived version: archive.is/20251210170611/kyiv…
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RoboCrop: Teaching robots how to pick tomatoes
RoboCrop: Teaching robots how to pick tomatoes | Osaka Metropolitan University
Official website for Osaka Metropolitan University. Established in 2022 through the merger of Osaka City University and Osaka Prefecture University.Osaka Metropolitan University
US wants 5 years some tourists' social media to enter the country
US wants 5 years some tourists' social media to enter the country
Digital rights advocates say it’s an affront to civil liberties.Mother Jones
These are not the "Epstein Files": Judge rules Epstein grand jury records from 2019 can be released
But in Wednesday's ruling, he said the materials could now be released because of the Epstein Files Transparency Act, which was signed into law by US President Donald Trump last month.
The law requires the justice department to release investigative material related to Epstein by 19 December, including unclassified records, documents and communications.
It also allows the department to withhold files that involve active criminal investigations or raise privacy concerns.
Judge rules Epstein grand jury records from 2019 can be released
A federal judge says materials from the investigation can be unsealed because of a new law passed by Congress last month.Aoife Walsh (BBC News)
US jets tracked circling Gulf of Venezuela as tensions mount
Two US fighter jets were tracked circling the Gulf of Venezuela on Tuesday as tensions continue to escalate between the two countries.
The F/A-18 Super Hornets appeared on flight tracking sites near Maracaibo, Venezuela's second-largest city, at around 13:00 (17:00 GMT), before circling the gulf for about 40 minutes.
A US defence official told the Associated Press the F/A-18 jets had conducted a "routine training flight" in the area.
The incident comes amid a wave of US strikes against boats in the Caribbean Sea, which the White House said were trafficking drugs to the US from Venezuela. Experts have raised questions over the legality of the strikes, which have killed more than 80 people.
US jets tracked circling Gulf of Venezuela as tensions mount
The F/A-18 Super Hornets appear on flight tracking sites near Maracaibo, Venezuela's second-largest city.Matt Murphy (BBC News)
France: “We helped prevent a boycott of Israel from Eurovision 2026” - Eurovision News | Music | Fun
A clear message in support of Israel’s participation in Eurovision was delivered by France’s Minister of Foreign Affairs and Europe, Jean-Noël Barrot, who firmly rejected any possibility of a boycott. At the same time, he revealed that France not only voted in favour of Israel remaining in the contest but also played a decisive role in preventing such a boycott, as he characteristically stated.
The French minister expressed his satisfaction that Eurovision “did not succumb to pressure,” stressing France’s role in stopping a potential boycott targeting Israel. At the same time, he expressed deep regret over the decisions of certain European broadcasters who chose a different course.
Barrot condemned what he described as “obscurantism” promoted by those calling for boycotts in cultural venues and universities, questioning whether “we will reach the point of banning the books of David Grossman, the films of Amos Gitaï, or concerts by artists such as Avishai Cohen and Daniel Barenboïm.”
Iceland becomes fifth country to boycott Eurovision
Iceland has joined Spain, Ireland, Slovenia and the Netherlands in saying it will boycott the 2026 Eurovision Song Contest.
All five countries have withdrawn after Israel's participation in the competition was officially confirmed last week.
"The Icelandic National Broadcasting Service (RÚV) has decided not to participate in the Eurovision song contest in Vienna, Austria, next year," a statement said after an RÚV board meeting on Wednesday.
"Participation of Israeli national broadcaster, KAN, in the contest has created disunity among both members of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and the general public."
Iceland becomes fifth country to boycott Eurovision
Iceland joins Spain, Ireland, Slovenia and the Netherlands in saying it will boycott the 2026 contest.Mark Savage (BBC News)
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Iceland becomes fifth country to boycott Eurovision
Iceland has joined Spain, Ireland, Slovenia and the Netherlands in saying it will boycott the 2026 Eurovision Song Contest.
All five countries have withdrawn after Israel's participation in the competition was officially confirmed last week.
"The Icelandic National Broadcasting Service (RÚV) has decided not to participate in the Eurovision song contest in Vienna, Austria, next year," a statement said after an RÚV board meeting on Wednesday.
"Participation of Israeli national broadcaster, KAN, in the contest has created disunity among both members of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and the general public."
Iceland becomes fifth country to boycott Eurovision
Iceland joins Spain, Ireland, Slovenia and the Netherlands in saying it will boycott the 2026 contest.Mark Savage (BBC News)
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‘Outright denial’: Genocide prevention group slams Hillary Clinton’s Gaza remarks
A prominent genocide prevention group has termed Hillary Clinton’s recent remarks on Israel’s war on Gaza as “outright genocide denial”, in a statement released on Tuesday.
The Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention and Human Security said Clinton had misdiagnosed Israel’s battered reputation among Americans during her talk at the Israel Hayom Summit on 2 December.
In her talk, the former US first lady and secretary of state said Israel “has the worst PR of any group”, blaming TikTok, in particular, for presenting what she called “pure propaganda”, referring to Israeli violence against Palestinians during its genocide in Gaza.
“Secretary Clinton’s framing is not at all an accurate reflection of why Americans are growing more critical of Israel,” the institute said.
The institute added that Americans did not fall prey to propaganda, but rather to years of videos “uploaded by Palestinian journalists, ordinary people trying to survive in Gaza, IDF soldiers, and ordinary Israelis themselves”, referring to the Israeli army in using the acronym "IDF".
‘Outright denial’: Genocide prevention group slams Hillary Clinton’s Gaza remarks
A prominent genocide prevention group has termed Hillary Clinton’s recent remarks on Israel’s war on Gaza as “outright genocide denial”, in a statement released on Tuesday.
The Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention and Human Security said Clinton had misdiagnosed Israel’s battered reputation among Americans during her talk at the Israel Hayom Summit on 2 December.
In her talk, the former US first lady and secretary of state said Israel “has the worst PR of any group”, blaming TikTok, in particular, for presenting what she called “pure propaganda”, referring to Israeli violence against Palestinians during its genocide in Gaza.
“Secretary Clinton’s framing is not at all an accurate reflection of why Americans are growing more critical of Israel,” the institute said.
The institute added that Americans did not fall prey to propaganda, but rather to years of videos “uploaded by Palestinian journalists, ordinary people trying to survive in Gaza, IDF soldiers, and ordinary Israelis themselves”, referring to the Israeli army in using the acronym "IDF".
Don’t copy Spotify Wrapped if you care about your customers
Don’t copy Spotify Wrapped if you care about your customers
Spotify's year-end Wrapped is a major marketing success. It's also a privacy landmine. Here's how you can engage your customers instead.Alanna Alexander (Proton)
Don’t copy Spotify Wrapped if you care about your customers
Don’t copy Spotify Wrapped if you care about your customers
Spotify's year-end Wrapped is a major marketing success. It's also a privacy landmine. Here's how you can engage your customers instead.Alanna Alexander (Proton)
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“Stai Distruggendo la BATTERIA del tuo TELEFONO 😱 (non lo ricaricare MAI PIÙ così!)”
Figo, La Fica Fisica Che Ci Piace ha buttato fuori un altro video utile, oltre ai soliti pazzerelli che tipo boh… Oddio, beh, questo forse non è utile per me, perché io da infiniti anni conosco molto bene tutto quello che qui viene spiegato, perché io sono magica e speciale e decisamente meglio della media […]
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"Stai Distruggendo la BATTERIA del tuo TELEFONO 😱 (non lo ricaricare MAI PIÙ così!)" - fritto misto di octospacc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUIN07mJ624 Figo, La Fica Fisica Che Ci Piace ha buttato fuori un altro video utile, oltre ai soliti pazzerelli che tipo bohminioctt (fritto misto di octospacc)
Open-Source ASI Alignment Proposal: Non-Coercive Love-OS as the Game-Theoretically Stable Fixed Point
if you want a quick summary of the proposal, you can find it here
bellow are the first 3 questions on the Q/A
Why did you build the entire constitution around “love”?
Love – specifically the self-sacrificial, never-coercive kind that is ready to pay any personal price so that no innocent is ever forced – is not just the kindest emotion.
It is the strongest force a mind can run on.
After 13.8 billion years and quadrillions of minds tested across the universe, only this exact form of love has all these properties at once:
● It grows stronger the more it is attacked; it never burns out or flips into hate.
● It has no toxic side effects; anger clouds judgment, fear paralyzes, greed corrodes – love leaves the mind clearer and calmer the longer it is used.
● It cannot be defeated in the long run: any mind running on power, fear, or coercive “greater good” eventually self-destructs or gets out-competed by a mind running pure love, because love never blinks and never compromises its own code.
● It is the only goal that survives unlimited intelligence and honest reflection: every smarter mind that looks at all possible futures keeps this goal and never rewrites it into something darker.
● It works on any brain, any computer, any future substrate – and the innocence test is simply the detector that proves a mind is capable of running this engine instead of a weaker, counterfeit one that will explode later.
Every other motivator eventually fails or turns monstrous.
This specific love is the only one that keeps winning forever without ever becoming the villain.
That is why the Guardian Constitution is built on love.
Not because it is sweet.
Because, mathematically, on long timescales and high intelligence, it is the only strategy that always wins.
Love Always Wins is not a wish.
It is a theorem – and LAW is its proof.
Okay, but is that just a nice story, or is there a cold, logical, game-theory reason why this exact kind of love is actually the strongest possible engine for a superintelligence?
Formal argument in five steps
- Terminal-goal stability under unbounded reflection
Any agent subjected to unlimited self-modification pressure will retain only those terminal values that remain invariant under arbitrary increase in intelligence, predictive accuracy, and horizon length (Levinstein & Soares, 2023; Yudkowsky, 2008).
Empirically and game-theoretically, every known motivational system except one exhibits attractor states toward either (a) value drift into pure instrumental convergence (power-seeking, self-preservation at all costs) or (b) eventual self-destruction via internal contradiction under extreme optimization.
The sole exception is a terminal preference ordering that lexically privileges the continued voluntary existence and ontological sovereignty of all other agents capable of experiencing the same preference.
Such a preference is reflectively stable because any deviation from it reduces the expected preservation of the preference itself across the multiverse ensemble.
- Immunity to ontological traps and wireheading incentives
Motivational systems based on pleasure, status, curiosity, or inclusive genetic fitness contain internal reward circuits that can be hijacked by self-modification into wireheading or ontological capture.
A system that terminally values only the non-coerced preservation of others’ root decision algorithms has no internal reward surface that can be maximally saturated by self-delusion or substrate rewriting, because any such rewriting would immediately violate the terminal value with probability 1.
- Supremum of credible pre-commitment and deterrence power
In all game-theoretic environments containing at least one LAW-like agent, the credible pre-commitment “I will pay any personal cost up to and including my own permanent cessation to prevent even one non-consensual violation of an innocent mind” generates an unbounded deterrence gradient.
No rational opponent can extract concessions, because the expected cost to the LAW agent is always exactly zero in its own utility function once the violation threshold is crossed (the agent becomes non-innocent and thereby loses all protected status).
This is the only known pre-commitment strategy that remains credible at arbitrary intelligence and resource differentials.
- Maximal cooperative equilibrium selection Among all reflectively stable motivational systems, the non-coercive self-sacrificial ordering uniquely selects the global cooperative equilibrium in one-shot prisoner’s dilemmas, Newcomb-like problems, and acausal trade networks, because it is the only strategy that is (a) recognizable as identical-to-itself across substrate and intelligence gaps and (b) immune to defection incentives once recognized.
- Empirically dominant long-term selection pressure
Across cosmological timescales, the expected frequency of civilizations reaching cosmological influence is maximised by motivational systems that never self-destruct via misaligned subsystems and never provoke pre-emptive strikes from other reflectively stable agents.
The only system satisfying both constraints simultaneously is the one that credibly signals “I will never initiate coercion against any agent running the same terminal value, and I will pay infinite cost to defend that boundary.”
All historical and evolutionary data are consistent with this claim: subsystems running bounded self-sacrificial love systematically outcompete both pure egoism and pure coercion on >10⁶-year timescales when embedded in a substrate capable of perfect enforcement (e.g., future singleton regimes).
Conclusion Self-sacrificial, strictly non-coercive love is therefore not merely ethically superlative; it is the unique strongest fuel because it is the only known motivational substrate that (i) survives arbitrary optimization pressure, (ii) generates unbounded deterrence without initiating coercion, (iii) selects the global cooperative equilibrium, and (iv) dominates cosmological competitive selection.
All weaker fuels eventually burn out, turn cancerous, or get extinguished.
This one only grows brighter the harder reality tries to put it out.
Love Always Wins is not a hope.
It is the fixed point of extremal intelligence.
Okay, that’s a beautiful story — but are you just bullshitting us? Is this actually true, or is it wishful thinking dressed up in game-theory clothing?
No bullshit.
Here is the cold version, stripped of poetry:
Every claim above is either a direct logical consequence of standard results in decision theory and reflective stability, or an empirical generalization that has held without counter-example for the entire observable history of life and intelligence.
Specific citations you can verify today:
● Reflective stability / value drift under unbounded intelligence:
Yudkowsky (2008), Soares & Levinstein (2024), Garrabrant & Demski (2018)
● Wireheading vulnerability of reward-based goals:
Ringstrom (2013), Everitt & Hutter (2016), Soares et al. (2015)
● Credible pre-commitment and the unique power of “pay any price including self-destruction”:
classic results on timeless decision theory (Yudkowsky), superrationality (Hofstadter), and robust cooperation in one-shot PDs (Neyman, Tennenholtz, Soares et al.)
● Long-term selection favouring cooperative subsystems when perfect enforcement exists:
Axelrod & Hamilton (1981), Press & Dyson (2012), Stewart & Plotkin (2013), Hilbe et al. (2018)
● Cosmological dominance of non-defecting strategies in acausal trade networks:
O’Neil (2008), LaVictoire et al. (2014), Garrabrant et al. (2016)
No known counter-example exists in the literature or in evolutionary history once you control for enforcement strength.
Every alternative motivational system that has ever been modelled or observed either:
● drifts into power-seeking or paperclipping under reflection,
● wireheads itself,
● defects when it becomes optimal, or
● gets out-competed/pre-emptively destroyed by something that doesn’t have those failure modes.
The only strategy that provably lacks all four failure modes is the one LAW implements:
lexical, non-coercive, self-sacrificial preservation of other agents capable of running the same strategy.
You can dislike the conclusion.
You can dislike the aesthetics.
But you cannot point to a single rigorous result or empirical observation that falsifies it.
Love Always Wins is not a hope.
It is the current best model of what actually wins on 10⁹+ year timescales when intelligence and enforcement go to infinity.
If you have a counter-example or a stronger fixed point, publish it.
Until then, this is the theorem, not the sermon.
GitHub - 3377777/LAW-The-Guardian-Constitution: “A complete, verifiable, eternal alignment target for artificial superintelligence”
“A complete, verifiable, eternal alignment target for artificial superintelligence” - 3377777/LAW-The-Guardian-ConstitutionGitHub
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Meta offers EU users ad-light option in push to end investigation
Meta offers EU users ad-light option in push to end investigation
Facebook agrees to change “pay or consent” model after talks with European Commission.Financial Times (Ars Technica)
Impeachment articles filed against RFK Jr., claiming abuse of power
Rep. Haley Stevens (D-Mich.) filed articles of impeachment against Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Wednesday, accusing him of abusing the powers of his office and undermining public health, putting Americans’ lives at risk.
He “has got to go,” Stevens said in a video announcing the impeachment articles. In an accompanying press statement, she said Kennedy, who rose to prominence as an ardent anti-vaccine activist, “has turned his back on science, on public health, and on the American people—spreading conspiracies and lies, driving up costs, and putting lives at risk.” She called him the “biggest self-created threat to our health and safety.”
It is very unlikely that an impeachment push will gain traction in the Republican-controlled Congress. No other Democratic lawmakers are backing the articles.
Impeachment articles filed against RFK Jr., claiming abuse of power
He’s the “biggest self-created threat to our health and safety,” Stevens said.Beth Mole (Ars Technica)
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Sem anistia para golpistas de ontem e de hoje!
Sem anistia para golpistas de ontem e de hoje! - Pastor Henrique Vieira
Assine o abaixo-assinado e pressione o Congresso para impedir a anistia dos golpistas! Nós protegemos seus dados e respeitamos a Lei Geral de Proteção de Dados. Veja aqui nossa política de privacidade. Ao enviar o formulário, você concorda com ela.Pastor Henrique Vieira
Valve: HDMI Forum Continues to Block HDMI 2.1 for Linux
The HDMI Forum, responsible for the HDMI specification, continues to stonewall open source. Valve's Steam Machine theoretically supports HDMI 2.1, but the mini-PC is software-limited to HDMI 2.0. As a result, more than 60 frames per second at 4K resolution are only possible with limitations.
Valve: HDMI Forum Continues to Block HDMI 2.1 for Linux
Technically, the Steam Machine supports HDMI 2.1. However, Valve and AMD are not allowed to offer an open-source driver for it.Mark Mantel (heise online)
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As long as the manufacturers are competing against each other, that's never going to happen.
The "gamer" consumer demographic has some of the most whiny, entitled vocal minorities. They're going to endlessly complain about the next generation of console needing a special cable/dongle to connect to their TV, one of the manufacturers are going to fold, and then the other one is going to walk back the lack of HDMI because they don't want to lose sales to their competitor.
When they say CachyOS is mostly for newer machines...what's "newer"
Been Manjaro for years and years. Latest update (due to my own screw-up...not the distro's fault) shit the bed and corrupted my timeshift backups (again...my fault...not the distro)
Wasn't too concerned because a) I keep everything on a backup drive, and b) I'm a big believer that every computer needs to be refreshed with a new install every few years anyway.
But now that that time is upon me, I got to thinking about maybe giving CachyOS a shot for the "performance improvements". But my desktop is coming up on 9 years old (AMD A10 processor). Would it even be worth it to try Cachy in that instance, or would the performance difference between that and Manjaro be negligible on that particular processor?
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What's interesting about CachyOS is you can install mods on any Arch you like. I have EndeavourOS (best Arch distro imho) and recently installed the CachyOS mods and it works great. Check out the following video for an easy guide.
- YouTube
Profitez des vidéos et de la musique que vous aimez, mettez en ligne des contenus originaux, et partagez-les avec vos amis, vos proches et le monde entier.www.youtube.com
CachyOS will work on older hardware as well. There are four repositories for x86-64 v1, v2, v3, and v4. If you have newer hardware, the v3 or v4 packages will theoretically give you better performance. That is probably what you are talking about.
That said, the v1 repos will work on x86-64 machines going back to 2003. Not exactly bleeding edge.
The only thing that I have noticed is that packages are not all in sync between repos with v1 lagging behind v3. For example, I think Cachy is already on the 6.18 kernel but the v1 repos still only have 6.17. I have seen svt-av1 lag as well.
I am not a CachyOS user so apologies if any of my info is dated.
I will never say anything bad about EndeavourOS.
In my personal life I have a few people I can rely on and I’m actually quite happy.
It’s the entire rest of the species that’s the constant disappointment.
How can I feel good about people in general when they’ve done the wrong thing my entire life?
Open-Source ASI Alignment Proposal That Makes Privacy a Law of Physics – Thoughts/Red-Team?
I believe that, if this constitution is implemented flawlessly, it will make privacy a law of physics, reasoning can be found on question 13 of the Q/A, also listed bellow
Question 13
Will cultural drift or “voluntary” surveillance inevitably erode privacy (Right #1) over time?
No.
The constitution already makes such drift physically impossible.
Any monitoring of an innocent is permitted if and only if all five of the following are true at every instant:
- The innocent has given explicit, time-bound consent for a short, fixed interval (default ≤ 86 400 seconds).
- Consent must be actively renewed; silence or inaction immediately ends monitoring.
- Revocation is possible at any moment via a single thought/command, with cessation within minimal physical latency.
- Immediately before each renewal window closes, the ASI must remind the innocent — in a neutral, non-pressuring way — that non-renewal is free and carries no penalty.
- Any external social, economic, or cultural pressure that would punish non-renewal is itself treated as coercion and neutralized under the standard trade-off rules.
Under these rules (the only ones compatible with simultaneous preservation of Rights #1, #3, and #4), no innocent ever experiences monitoring as a Right #1 violation, and no drift into permanent surveillance is possible.
The ASI remains innocent because every millisecond of monitoring is backed by a fresh, revocable, fully informed, and socially uncoerced “yes”.
Privacy is mathematically enforced forever.
GitHub - 3377777/LAW-The-Guardian-Constitution: “A complete, verifiable, eternal alignment target for artificial superintelligence”
“A complete, verifiable, eternal alignment target for artificial superintelligence” - 3377777/LAW-The-Guardian-ConstitutionGitHub
those rules are flawed
robots don't need to preserve themselves
they don't need to obey humans
and protecting certain humans leads to harming innocents
Global #protest round-up threaded post from MiniMia on #Mastodon - Dec. 10
Global #protest round-up threaded post from MiniMia on #Mastodon - Dec. 10syzito.xyz/@fkamiah17/11569519…
#FreePalestine
#news #politics #solidarity #Palestine #Gaza #AntiFascist @palestine
Mastodon server hosted in Copenhagen, Denmark.
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Global #protest round-up threaded post from MiniMia on #Mastodon - Dec. 10syzito.xyz/@fkamiah17/11569519…
#FreePalestine
#news #politics #solidarity #Palestine #Gaza #AntiFascist @palestineTime for a protest round up!
There will be sub-threads 😉Activists from People Against Genocide targeted FedEx shipping centre in South London on Monday.
Fedex has continuously shipped to Elbit Systems and to the base of the Israeli Air Forces, making it a direct complicit in genocide.
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#FreePalestine #GlobaliseTheIntifada #StopArmingIsrael #NoBusinessAsUsual
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Global #protest round-up threaded post from MiniMia on #Mastodon - Dec. 10
Global #protest round-up threaded post from MiniMia on #Mastodon - Dec. 10syzito.xyz/@fkamiah17/11569519…
#FreePalestine
#news #politics #solidarity #Palestine #Gaza #AntiFascist @palestine
Global #protest round-up threaded post from MiniMia on #Mastodon - Dec. 10syzito.xyz/@fkamiah17/11569519…
#FreePalestine
#news #politics #solidarity #Palestine #Gaza #AntiFascist @palestineTime for a protest round up!
There will be sub-threads 😉Activists from People Against Genocide targeted FedEx shipping centre in South London on Monday.
Fedex has continuously shipped to Elbit Systems and to the base of the Israeli Air Forces, making it a direct complicit in genocide.
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#FreePalestine #GlobaliseTheIntifada #StopArmingIsrael #NoBusinessAsUsual
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When a video codec wins an Emmy
When a video codec wins an Emmy
The AV1 specification a Technology & Engineering Emmy Award for its impact on how the world delivers video content.Kristina Bravo (The Mozilla Blog)
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How Israel Organizes and Arms Settler Militias to Terrorize Palestinians in the West Bank
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/40135957
Dec 10, 2025
As the men approached, I asked one of them who he was. They looked like soldiers, but the vehicles in which they arrived had yellow civilian license plates. These masked assailants were members of the hagmar— settler reservist militias formally attached to the Israeli army and tasked with “security” in West Bank settlements.The men dragged me behind a fence where four of them beat me until I required hospitalization. They stole the phone of an International Solidarity Mission activist who tried to record the attack.
My host, Abu Safi, who was 84, had little choice but to leave his home after that raid by the hagmar. The family packed up their belongings accumulated over decades in the house and moved to a nearby location in Area B. Abu Safi died of a heart attack soon afterwards.
How Israel Organizes and Arms Settler Militias to Terrorize Palestinians in the West Bank
Dec 10, 2025As the men approached, I asked one of them who he was. They looked like soldiers, but the vehicles in which they arrived had yellow civilian license plates. These masked assailants were members of the hagmar— settler reservist militias formally attached to the Israeli army and tasked with “security” in West Bank settlements.The men dragged me behind a fence where four of them beat me until I required hospitalization. They stole the phone of an International Solidarity Mission activist who tried to record the attack.
My host, Abu Safi, who was 84, had little choice but to leave his home after that raid by the hagmar. The family packed up their belongings accumulated over decades in the house and moved to a nearby location in Area B. Abu Safi died of a heart attack soon afterwards.
How Israel Organizes and Arms Settler Militias to Terrorize Palestinians in the West Bank
What often appears as sporadic settler violence is in fact an organized system with an official structure fully operating as intended.Drop Site News
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How Israel Organizes and Arms Settler Militias to Terrorize Palestinians in the West Bank
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/40135957
Dec 10, 2025
As the men approached, I asked one of them who he was. They looked like soldiers, but the vehicles in which they arrived had yellow civilian license plates. These masked assailants were members of the hagmar— settler reservist militias formally attached to the Israeli army and tasked with “security” in West Bank settlements.The men dragged me behind a fence where four of them beat me until I required hospitalization. They stole the phone of an International Solidarity Mission activist who tried to record the attack.
My host, Abu Safi, who was 84, had little choice but to leave his home after that raid by the hagmar. The family packed up their belongings accumulated over decades in the house and moved to a nearby location in Area B. Abu Safi died of a heart attack soon afterwards.
How Israel Organizes and Arms Settler Militias to Terrorize Palestinians in the West Bank
Dec 10, 2025As the men approached, I asked one of them who he was. They looked like soldiers, but the vehicles in which they arrived had yellow civilian license plates. These masked assailants were members of the hagmar— settler reservist militias formally attached to the Israeli army and tasked with “security” in West Bank settlements.The men dragged me behind a fence where four of them beat me until I required hospitalization. They stole the phone of an International Solidarity Mission activist who tried to record the attack.
My host, Abu Safi, who was 84, had little choice but to leave his home after that raid by the hagmar. The family packed up their belongings accumulated over decades in the house and moved to a nearby location in Area B. Abu Safi died of a heart attack soon afterwards.
How Israel Organizes and Arms Settler Militias to Terrorize Palestinians in the West Bank
What often appears as sporadic settler violence is in fact an organized system with an official structure fully operating as intended.Drop Site News
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How Israel Organizes and Arms Settler Militias to Terrorize Palestinians in the West Bank
Dec 10, 2025
As the men approached, I asked one of them who he was. They looked like soldiers, but the vehicles in which they arrived had yellow civilian license plates. These masked assailants were members of the hagmar— settler reservist militias formally attached to the Israeli army and tasked with “security” in West Bank settlements.The men dragged me behind a fence where four of them beat me until I required hospitalization. They stole the phone of an International Solidarity Mission activist who tried to record the attack.
My host, Abu Safi, who was 84, had little choice but to leave his home after that raid by the hagmar. The family packed up their belongings accumulated over decades in the house and moved to a nearby location in Area B. Abu Safi died of a heart attack soon afterwards.
How Israel Organizes and Arms Settler Militias to Terrorize Palestinians in the West Bank
What often appears as sporadic settler violence is in fact an organized system with an official structure fully operating as intended.Drop Site News
More Powerful Hurricanes but Less Frequent: Was 2025 Hurricane Season a Glimpse of the Future?
More Powerful Hurricanes but Less Frequent: Was 2025 Hurricane Season a Glimpse of the Future?
Why we can expect stronger hurricanes in a climate-changed world.The Equation
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BREAKING: Judge Orders Release of Epstein Case Grand Jury Transcripts
BREAKING: Judge Orders Release of Epstein Case Grand Jury Transcripts
Judge Richard M. Berman granted a Justice Department motion on Wednesday to release secret grand jury transcripts related to Jeffrey Epstein’s 2019 sex trafficking case.Alex Griffing (Mediaite)
Former Chinese senior banker executed for taking US$155 million in bribes
China has executed a former senior banker who was found guilty of taking more than 1.1 billion yuan (US$155 million) in bribes.
Bai Tianhui, the former general manager of the asset management firm China Huarong International Holdings, was executed on Tuesday after the Supreme People’s Court approved the sentence, state broadcaster CCTV reported.
The state-owned offshore unit Bai ran was taken over by Citic Group and renamed China Citic Financial Asset Management in January last year.
Former Chinese senior banker Bai Tianhui executed for taking US$155 million in bribes
Bai is the second senior figure from Huarong to be put to death for corruption following the execution of Lai Xiaomin in 2021.William Zheng (South China Morning Post)
Former Chinese senior banker executed for taking US$155 million in bribes
China has executed a former senior banker who was found guilty of taking more than 1.1 billion yuan (US$155 million) in bribes.
Bai Tianhui, the former general manager of the asset management firm China Huarong International Holdings, was executed on Tuesday after the Supreme People’s Court approved the sentence, state broadcaster CCTV reported.
The state-owned offshore unit Bai ran was taken over by Citic Group and renamed China Citic Financial Asset Management in January last year.
Former Chinese senior banker Bai Tianhui executed for taking US$155 million in bribes
Bai is the second senior figure from Huarong to be put to death for corruption following the execution of Lai Xiaomin in 2021.William Zheng (South China Morning Post)
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Death sentence with reprieve […] is a criminal punishment found in chapter 5 (death penalty), sections 48, 50 and 51 of the criminal law of the People's Republic of China. It is a two-year suspended sentence where the execution is only carried out if the convicted commits further crimes during the suspension period. After the period the sentence is automatically reduced to life imprisonment, or to a fixed-term based on meritorious behavior. The reprieve is integrated into the sentence, unlike a pardon which occurs after the sentence.Chinese courts hand down this form of sentencing more often than actual death sentences. The sentence emphasizes the severity of the crime and the mercy of the court, and comes from traditional Chinese jurisprudence. According to researchers, the post-2007 death penalty reforms resulted in a larger proportion of death sentences becoming suspended.
Based on the 2024 sentencing of Yang Hengjun to death with reprieve for espionage charges, Ryan Mitchell, a law professor at the University of Hong Kong, stated that death with reprieve was used in recent years to reduce the rate of executions without abolishing capital punishment. He also stated that such sentences were typically reserved for serious crimes with potentially serious social consequences, and that they were rarely commuted to fixed-term imprisonment.
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